thumb|right|200px|[[Queen (band)|Queen scored two #1 hits with "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" and "Another One Bites the Dust" in 1980.]]
thumb|right|200px|[[Kenny Rogers scored his first #1 hit with "Lady" in 1980.]]
alt=|thumb|right|[[John Lennon (pictured in 1969) became the fourth solo act to have a number-one hit posthumously after he was murdered in December 1980 with "(Just Like) Starting Over", reaching #1 in 1980 and 1981.|169x169px]]
These are the Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1980. The two longest running number-one singles of 1980 are "Call Me" by Blondie and "Lady" by Kenny Rogers with each single obtaining six weeks on top of the chart. Every song that went to number one for 1980 stayed on the Billboard Hot 100 over 20 weeks.
That year, six acts hit number one for the first time, such as Queen, Pink Floyd, Lipps Inc., Billy Joel, Christopher Cross, and Kenny Rogers. John Lennon was the fourth artist to hit number one posthumously, after his death in December 1980.
The British rock band Queen was the only act to achieve multiple number-one songs during the year with "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" and "Another One Bites the Dust".
Chart history
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|style="background-color:#FFFF99"|The yellow background indicates the #1 song on Billboards 1980 Year-End Chart of Pop Singles.
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!Issue date
!Song
!Artist(s)
!
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|align="center" bgcolor=EDEAE0|480
|January 5
|align="center"|"Please Don't Go"
|align="center"|KC and the Sunshine Band
|align="center"|
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|align="center" bgcolor=EDEAE0|re
|January 12
|align="center"|"Escape (The Piña Colada Song)"
|align="center"|Rupert Holmes
|align="center"|
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|align="center" bgcolor=EDEAE0 rowspan=4|481
|January 19
|align="center" rowspan="4"|"Rock with You"
|align="center" rowspan="4"|Michael Jackson
|align="center"|
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|January 26
|align="center"|
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|February 2
|align="center"|
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|February 9
|align="center"|
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|align="center" bgcolor=EDEAE0|482
|February 16
|align="center"|"Do That to Me One More Time"
|align="center"|Captain & Tennille
|align="center"|
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|align="center" bgcolor=EDEAE0 rowspan=4|483
|February 23
|align="center" rowspan="4"|"Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
|align="center" rowspan="4"|Queen
|align="center"|
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|March 1
|align="center"|
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|March 8
|align="center"|
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|March 15
|align="center"|
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|align="center" bgcolor=EDEAE0 rowspan=4|484
|March 22
|align="center" rowspan="4"|"Another Brick in the Wall, Part II"
|align="center" rowspan="4"|Pink Floyd
|align="center"|
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|March 29
|align="center"|
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|April 5
|align="center"|
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|April 12
|align="center"|
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|align="center" bgcolor=EDEAE0 rowspan=6|485
|April 19
|bgcolor=#FFFF99 align="center" rowspan="6"|"Call Me"
|align="center" rowspan="6"|Blondie
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|April 26
|align="center"|
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|May 3
|align="center"|
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|May 10
|align="center"|
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|May 17
|align="center"|
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|May 24
|align="center"|
|-
|align="center" bgcolor=EDEAE0 rowspan=4|486
|May 31
|align="center" rowspan="4"|"Funkytown"
|align="center" rowspan="4"|Lipps Inc.
|align="center"|
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|June 7
|align="center"|
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|June 14
|align="center"|
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|June 21
|align="center"|
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|align="center" bgcolor=EDEAE0 rowspan=3|487
|June 28
|align="center" rowspan="3"|"Coming Up"
|align="center" rowspan="3"|Paul McCartney
|align="center"|
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|July 5
|align="center"|
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|July 12
|align="center"|
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|align="center" bgcolor=EDEAE0 rowspan=2|488
|July 19
|align="center" rowspan="2"|"It's Still Rock and Roll to Me"
|align="center" rowspan="2"|Billy Joel
|align="center"|
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|July 26
|align="center"|
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|align="center" bgcolor=EDEAE0 rowspan=4|489
|August 2
|align="center" rowspan="4"|"Magic"
|align="center" rowspan="4"|Olivia Newton-John
|align="center"|
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|August 9
|align="center"|
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|August 16
|align="center"|
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|August 23
|align="center"|
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|align="center" bgcolor=EDEAE0|490
|August 30
|align="center"|"Sailing"
|align="center"|Christopher Cross
|align="center"|
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|align="center" bgcolor=EDEAE0 rowspan=4|491
|September 6
|align="center" rowspan="4"|"Upside Down"
|align="center" rowspan="4"|Diana Ross
|align="center"|
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|September 13
|align="center"|
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|September 20
|align="center"|
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|September 27
|align="center"|
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|align="center" bgcolor=EDEAE0 rowspan=3|492
|October 4
|align="center" rowspan="3"|"Another One Bites the Dust"
|align="center" rowspan="3"|Queen
|align="center"|
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|October 11
|align="center"|
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|October 18
|align="center"|
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|align="center" bgcolor=EDEAE0 rowspan=3|493
|October 25
|align="center" rowspan="3"|"Woman in Love"
|align="center" rowspan="3"|Barbra Streisand
|align="center"|
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|November 1
|align="center"|
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|November 8
|align="center"|
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|align="center" bgcolor=EDEAE0 rowspan=6|494
|November 15
|align="center" rowspan="6"|"Lady"
|align="center" rowspan="6"|Kenny Rogers
|align="center"|
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|November 22
|align="center"|
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|November 29
|align="center"|
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|December 6
|align="center"|
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|December 13
|align="center"|
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|December 20
|align="center"|
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|align="center" bgcolor=EDEAE0|495
|December 27
|align="center"|"(Just Like) Starting Over"
|align="center"|John Lennon
|align="center"|
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Number-one artists
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
|+ List of number-one artists by total weeks at number one
! Position
! Artist
! Weeks at No. 1
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| 1
| Queen
| 7
|-
| rowspan=2| 2
| Blondie
| rowspan=2| 6
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| Kenny Rogers
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| rowspan=5| 4
| Michael Jackson
| rowspan=5| 4
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| Pink Floyd
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| Lipps Inc.
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| Olivia Newton-John
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| Diana Ross
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| rowspan=2| 9
| Paul McCartney
| rowspan=2| 3
|-
| Barbra Streisand
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| 11
| Billy Joel
| 2
|-
| rowspan=5| 12
| KC and the Sunshine Band
| rowspan=5| 1
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| Rupert Holmes
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| Captain & Tennille
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| Christopher Cross
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| John Lennon
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See also
- 1980 in music
- List of Cashbox Top 100 number-one singles of 1980
- Lists of Billboard number-one singles
- List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of the 1980s
References
Additional sources
- Fred Bronson's Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits, 5th Edition ()
- Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2008, 12 Edition ()
- Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Eighties ()
- Additional information obtained can be verified within Billboard's online archive services and print editions of the magazine.